khamsin
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But for the moment no khamsin was blowing, no dreadful sandstorm to grind up men and machines.
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The khamsin, the hot African wind, filled the air with the sands of the Sahara.
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The khamsin is a baleful wind that flares out of the deserts, drying out the land and the people until the flesh fairly crackles.
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Last week, as Jerusalem suffered under the worst khamsin since 1893, tempers and guns blazed along Israel's borders.
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The heat was increasing and the desert winds brought the "khamsin" or duststorms.
From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Collett, Herbert Brayley
